Couch Tales: Short Stories

by Roger Kennedy

A psychoanalyst sits in his consulting room waiting for the next patient. Thoughts, feelings and anxieties about his own current life begin to assault him. Partly as a way of dealing with the crisis in his own life, he begins to write fictional stories loosely based upon his patients' stories. Between each story the analyst produces a journal which comments upon the stories as well as his own developing personal situation. Couch Tales is a work of pure fiction, for the psychoanalyst and the patients are imaginary. However, they also reflect Roger Kennedy's work as a psychoanalyst, and the way that psychoanalysis reflects in depth on peoples' lives and narratives.

144 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 6, 2008

About the author

Trained as a doctor at UCL and UCH, a psychiatrist at Royal Free, and a child psychiatrist at The Tavistock Centre and Guys Hospital. NHS Consultant for 30 years, in charge of Family Unit Cassel Hospital. Now Private Child Psychiatrist The Child and Family Practice London. Training analyst British Psychoanalytical Society and Past President.